CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOB INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

Fluid Mechanics: -

1. What is pressure drop? How its calculated?

2. What is Reynolds number, Prandal number? Its Significance.

3. Newtons law of viscosity?

4. Classification of Fluids

5. What is Bernoullis principle?

6. What is Darcy’s equation?

7. What is Continuity equation?

Heat Transfer: -

1. What is Heat transfer coefficient HTC?

2. What are the heat exchangers? Uses and applications
3. How heat duty is calculated?
4. What are the types of Heat Exchangers?
5. What is enthalpy, entropy, humidity?
6. What is conduction, convection and radiation?
7. Types of Evaporators

Mass Transfer: -

1. What are the unit operations?

2. What are the unit processes?
3. What is Drying? Types of Dryers
4. What is distillation? Types of distillation columns and its internal elements
5. What is Material balance?
6. What is the Procedure for doing overall material balance across the equipment?

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Process Engineering and Design: -

1. What is equipment sizing and fabrication?

2. What parameters will you consider while designing an equipment?
3. What are the steps in designing an equipment?
4. Difference between process design and process engineering?
5. What is site elevation?
6. WBT, SBC, Relative Humidity at process plant site

Pump: -

1. What is NPSH?
2. What is cavitation in Centrifugal pump?
3. What is suction head?
4. Types of pumps?

Steam: -

1. What is saturated steam and superheated steam?

2. What Enthalpy of Steam?
3. What Latent heat of steam?
4. What are the steam traps?

Utility: -

1. What is cooling tower? Its significance

2. What is compressed air?
3. What are compressors, Blowers?
4. How make-up water calculations are done?
5. What is cooling tower recirculation system?

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Commissioning and safety: -

1. What are the start-up procedures and shut-down procedures of a process plant?
2. What are the pre-commissioning checks?
3. What is HAZOP?
4. What is ATEX and SIL?

Instrumentation and control: -

1. What is PCC?
2. What is MCC?
3. What are the control loops?
4. What is PLC?
5. What is DCS?

Simulation: -

1. What are the different simulation softwares?

2. What is the basic procedure for simulation?
3. ASPEN HYSYS
4. HTRI
5. ChemCad
6. AutoCad
7. UniSim

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NON-TECHNICAL JOB INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

1. What are your strengths?

2. What are your weaknesses?
3. Why are you interested in working with us?
4. Where do you see yourself in five years? Ten years?
5. What can you offer us that someone else can not?
6. Are you willing to relocate?
7. Are you willing to travel?
8. Tell me about an accomplishment you are most proud of.
9. Tell me about a time you made a mistake.
10. What is your dream job?
11. How did you hear about this position?
12. Tell me how you handled a difficult situation.
13. Why should we hire you?
14. Would you work holidays/weekends?
15. How would you deal with an angry or irate customer?
16. What are your salary requirements?
17. Who are our competitors?
18. What motivates you?
19. How do you handle pressure?
20. What is the name of our CEO?
21. What are your career goals?
22. What are your hobbies?
23. What are some of your leadership experiences?
24. What do you like the most and least about working in this industry?
25. What questions do you have for me?

Department of Chemical Engineering, SCOE, Pune.

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6. https://www.indiabix.com/chemical-engineering/questions-and-answers/

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